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DEBUT
Metadata
- title
- DEBUT
- description
- OKAME first album (Feb 2026), eight tracks of Nostalpop from ex-CHAI twins MANA and KANA; mixed by Luke Francis Walton, built from three monthly singles into “the answer that is right for us now.”
- year
- 2026
- releaseDate
- 2026-02-04
- releaseType
- album
- artist
- OKAME
- artworkBy
- chao!
- spotify
- https://open.spotify.com/album/4s9NnOKqJ7MkiXilulQYEp
- apple
- https://music.apple.com/us/album/debut/1867075169
- youtube
- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_k3oW1AuR7Qz3w0-WxExcXKEjmZcbl3h_s
- press
- outlet
- Rooftop: DEBUT
- url
- https://rooftop1976.com/news/2026/01/09183000.php
- desc
- Digital release Feb 4; documentary OK A ME REVOLUTION THROUGH MUSIC one-day screening Feb 11 at Shibuya Eurospace.
- outlet
- Skream!: DEBUT
- url
- https://skream.jp/news/2026/01/okame_debut_release.php
- desc
- ex-CHAI MANA & KANA project; eight-song tracklist and monthly-single arc.
- outlet
- Natalie: DEBUT
- url
- https://natalie.mu/music/news/655580
- desc
- Theme “this is the right answer for us now”; たまや lead + A SCENE tie-in; 夜はきらい film theme.
- outlet
- NiEW: DEBUT / Tamaya
- url
- https://niewmedia.com/en/news/093904/
- desc
- Lead track たまや pre-release Jan 21; A SCENE MV art direction by koki furuya.
- outlet
- MARZEL: debut single
- url
- https://marzel.jp/topics/20251003/
- desc
- OKAME launch and ノスタルポップ frame from first single おかしなきもち.
- tracks
- title
- おかしなきもち (Okashi Na Kimochi)
- song
- okashi-na-kimochi
- title
- 照れないで
- song
- okame-terenaide
- title
- 夜はきらい
- song
- okame-yoru-wa-kirai
- title
- たまや
- song
- okame-tamaya
- title
- ハートの中で
- song
- okame-heart-no-naka-de
- title
- 地球さん
- song
- okame-chikyu-san
- title
- それいけ！シンデレラ
- song
- okame-soreike-cinderella
- title
- GAME OVER
- song
- game-over
- draft
- false
Content
DEBUT, first album by OKAME, the post-CHAI project of twin frontwomen MANA and KANA. Jacket illustration by chao! (KANA's husband, illustrator) — same visual world as the 夜はきらい animation MV and documentary OK A ME REVOLUTION THROUGH MUSIC (/with/chao/). The MANAKANA official site is explicit: CHAI disbanded March 12, 2024 at EX THEATER ROPPONGI in Tokyo; OKAME began September 2025 under Revolution through Music: intentionally not “CHAI part two,” but a new context for the expressiveness and pop sense they built in the old band.
February 4, 2026 digital release (Rooftop, Skream!, Natalie, NiEW). Eight songs from a three-month single run (おかしなきもち → 照れないで → GAME OVER) into これが今の私たちの正解: NiEW frames DEBUT as a new chapter capturing their current musical identity, not a NEO KAWAII continuation.
The sound axis is ノスタルポップ (Nostalpop): inward, identity-forward pop after burnout and the end of a globally recognized band (MARZEL, NiEW launch). Scoobert Doobert is listed as Mixing Engineer on every track in the Apple Music DEBUT credits pane — verified platform credits across the full eight-song LP and the monthly singles that became it. Adjacent in the same MANA/KANA arc: KOMAGOME (first post-CHAI produce lane) and WE CAN'T DOLL / CHAHHAN composition credits.
Placement highlights on the LP: たまや is the lead track (Jan 21, 2026 pre-release) with an A SCENE gadget-brand MV (NiEW). 夜はきらい is the theme for FAT CLUB’s short film 餃子店で朝食を, screened alongside the documentary OK A ME REVOLUTION THROUGH MUSIC at Shibuya Eurospace (Feb 11, 2026), official animation MV directed by chao! (Skream!). Album cut GAME OVER closes the eight-track sequence, not the lead single, but the December cap on the monthly rollout.
Documentary: OK A ME REVOLUTION THROUGH MUSIC: directed by chao! (KANA’s husband, illustrator), one-day theatrical run Feb 11, 2026. Rooftop and Natalie on illness, fatigue, and choosing the mic again after dissolution.
Listen: Spotify · Apple Music · YouTube (8 tracks, ~26:23 · KODO RECORDS). Track pages · With OKAME · Catalog: production